About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1887)
UCA*T\Ojl VOLUME XII.—NUMBER 591. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 12.1887. PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE MORNING, MARCH 12, 1887. tian warning; the helping hand which ~-.*ght have helped an erring brother ’~uoe more on to the firm foundation—the —..rd unspoken—the hand withheld, until that soul had passed to where kind word or fervent prayer alike, can avail nothing. Violets ungathered, which might have shone as additional stars in our immortal crowns. Rosa Alba. Greenwood, Ala. "Better late Than Never.’ Dear Mother Hubbard “No wonder that my tears should flow, In listening to Kit's mourful strain— That those doleful wails should fill soul with jay and pain.” have laid b*re stern facts for e proud, criticising world, verybody. Often have " " ou. Declared hold! here Average The creasing—Not Not Famine—All own Fault, r Modern Cooking and Mod- ern Living have brought it on. It comes upon us una wares. The patients Lava pains about the chest and aides^ and sometimes in the back. They feel dull and sleepy; the mouth has a bad taste, esperi- sJlv in the morning. A sort iSQV*collects about if/' i Shaking Across the Bloody Chasm. THE RAIN SPRITE. liOXV CROFT. Week i o. week oat, and far and wide. Our lands were locked In dreary sdow; N > skyward gleam our glance descried. We beard the gusty trumpets blow. AH else was bushed; from gable panes Afar ws s iw the froz *n II rods, The spectral peaks, the desolate plains, The barren woodland solitudes. But, noiselessly, and stealthily, L ist night a sprite from halmles spheres Came while we slept; and fled away To weep lor us her rainy tears. A fragrance sweet our pillows wreathed From all her garlands of the south; And yet we heard Dot when she breathed The mandates of her m iglc mouth. B r lgbt fl sb’d the dawnour slumbers broke— Toe arcb was clear,—a golden glow Lit vale and plain, aud bills of oak,— Adown tbe dark bad sped the snow. Shouted tbe streams. Oo lip and brow, Thro’casements wide, reached tenderly A touch like love’s; snd from a bough A wild bird poured Its rhapsody. O. saddest lives! beholrt.be wise; Be true, aud patient I ’mid ycur pain s une kindlier voice will bid you rise And wear your smiles of Joy again. J*ENINSULA. and the bast. and Other ry up and down ast of the pe- i of the St. John’s river, described in the previous article, I never heard of a cotton plantation; the people are de voted to oranges and othf r fruits, farming, gar dening, nurseries, cattle raising, saw-mills, fisheries, winter hotels etc. Very far south near lliscayne llay they make arrow root from the wild plant Compti, which is boated to Key West an i sold. Travel west vard from l’alatka twenty-five miles to the neighborhood of Orange Springs, and you will enter Alachua and Marion coun ties, where the famous long staple cotton is raised, as the main crop. At this amiable vil lage the peculiar gins for this valuable staple have long been manufactured. Col. 1‘earson, who died years ago at a ripe oil age, bought the patent of the inventor McCarthy, aud founded the village and factory. Messrs. Liv ingstone and McBride carry on the business. < ice of those immense transparent sulphurous fountains we have mentioned, good for drink ing aud bathing, and the Ocklawaha river lend interest to the place. The community won the epithet of amiable through their rare hos pitality and good order—during a term of ten years there was only one trial for disorder in the magistrate’s court, although there were bar rooms at times. Alachua is large and is a grand county. It attracted the earliest whites who ventured into the interior, to make settlements at Micanopy and Xewnansville. There are some forests of oak, hickory and dogwood which pleasantly remind one of the up-country. There are deep, loamy, bro wu soils. There are hammock soils so rich as to yield stgar cane rather large for the mills in common use. There are lauds at Kewnansville abounding in wild vines, and thus point to grape culture. Near the town is a natural object of peculiar interest—a prairie of seviral miles length and breadth, which is some years covered with wa ter, making a fine large lake—a desideratum. This is caused by the stopping of the under ground outlet by drift. Gainesville is a beautiful young city of over 6,000 inhabitants and is growing at the rate of one thousand a year. Visitors are charmed with the elegant aspect of the place and citi- zers. The stores are large and the goods are sold reasonably. Many northern families who are wedded to town life, and have long purses, have winter homes here. There are excellent schools. The county has over 20,000 inhabi tants. It is only about two hours run by fast freight trains to the coast at Cedar Keys, and so, ocean luxuries may often “crown the board.” Marion county is also large, and ter people claim that their county is more evenly fertile than the othi r. The soil abounds in lime—the basis of fertility. Travellers passing through are enraptured with the lands. Ocala the county site, is one of the richest towns of its size in all the country, North or Soith. It was stylish when but a village, having lighted streets, good market, etc. The site is in an umbrageous hammock forest. Mr. Ag- new, her leading merchant, does the largest business in the State. The town now has over 3,500 inhabitants and it groiving steadily. The citizens cherish unbounded pride in the adaptation of their soils to oranges and the sea-island cotton; they confidently challenge inspection and comparison; they only ask, “Come and see them.” Thriving villages are being built all through the county. The mayor and town council maintain good order inexor ably. East of the town a few miles is Silve? Spring, the largest and most brilliant of all the wonderful transparent fountains of the State. It is 600 feet across and several fathoms deep, and the water is almost as clear as daylight. Its outflow makes a navigable connection with the (Icklawaba river. Any sketch of this county would be incom plete that did not name Col. Adam Eichelber- ger as her “fruit man” (as they call him), who, besides his cotton planting, has pushed orange and other fruit culture with rare zeal. Judge Dunn has also done much in this way. Lake Weir, the brilliant, is in this county. Orange Lake, the rich, belongs both to this and Alachua, s nee it is situated across the boundary. Sumter county is south of and adjoining Ma rion, which it resembles in many respects. It, too, has ambitious towns and villages—Sum- terville, Lees burgh and Tavares, a trio, not far from each other. Col. H. St. C. Abrams, an editor formerly of Atlanta, founded the last, and he has been Indefatigable and successful in promoting the railroad Interests of this re gion, having effected a railroad centre. There are immense orange groves at Panasofkee Lake. Our estimable ex-Governor Bloxham has a grove there. Hernando county is large, is west of Sum ter, and has the valuable advantage of a sea- coast boundary of fifty miles. While her landB are not generally fertile like those of Alachua and Marion, her people claim that they have some particular hammocks which are more fertile than any others. The Aunu- taliga hammock near Brookvilie, is the best. It is twelve miles long and six wide. There are farms in this which yield twelve barrels of sugar, or sixty bushels of corn, or fifty of up land rice, to the acre, without fertilizers, and are durable. Brooksville, the county site, is a handsome town on a truly lofty eminence for Florida. The people are inclined to he social and festive. It is only thirteen miles to the Gulf, and Bay port is their own little harbor It is a quaint hamlet of some two dozen fami lies, on a sandy beach extending through shal lows to navigable water. An elderly motherly widow lady keeps a quaint, comfortable inn. A sparkling little river from a transparent fountain flows by the village into the Gulf. There is one resident, Major Parsons, formerly of the U. S. Army, now a cosmopolite, whose tall, com Handing figure and handsome fea tures would be admired in the most august as semblies. He is a capitalist, “hand-in-glove” with sows of Wall street, and happening to see this place, fell in love with it, and spends a part of his time here in his comfortable home, leisurely promoting its interests—among which, planning for a railroad to Brooksville. There is a Mr. Goethe, a relative of the great German literateur, who, besides being a “bus iness man,” is a crack hunter, and kindly ac companied our prospecting party as we went away, and introduced one of them to a fine buck which he killed. The orange groves of Brooksville are splendid. The Hancock House is excellent. In the northern portion of the country there is a grand Lake named Charley Apopka (for a noted Indian) twelve miles in length, whose winding shores would give room for thousands of lovely homes. This has lately been con nected with the Withlacoochee river by a nav igable canal. It being only ten miles from the Lake to the Gulf, persons living in the inter vening country could have both lake and ocean enjoyments. Those portions of the country along the coa <t, rather poor for fruit and fanning, make good “preserves” for game, especially deer, which abound, and would be good range for sheep—cattle are already raised therein Going on from Brooksville towards Tampa, fifteen miles brings us to Fort Dade and its neighborhood, which have long been noted; the people for their hospitality, and the country for its fertility and its pretty lakelets. The community now are in the midst of the enjoy ment of a newly finished railroad. The flourishing colony, Sicily, is five miles West. Tampa, which might be called the venerable from its age and historic interests, is on a northeaatei .i arm of the large Lay of the mine, where the Hillsborough river flows in. Here the oldest explorer, I’once De Leon, landed. And here the true Knight, Hernando ire Soto, disembarked and began his long, arduous in vasion—in which he found the Mississippi, but wore out his life and wasted his splendidly equipped force to a forlorn handful. (See Theodore Irving’s thrilling his’ory.) Tampa impresses the traveler as the most tropical of all the towns in the United States. It has not many thousand inhabitants, but is growing; until three years ago it had no rail road to the interior. Lately, at one scoop, it captured some thousands of Spaniards and Cubans to employ in cigar factories. They are domiciled in suburbs called YborCity. The Bay is truly beautiful, as is attested by travelers who have often seen the incompara ble Bay of Naples. Winter visitors from the interior greatly enjoy the novelty of the coast. The Gulf coast of the peninsula is wholly different from the eastern. High hills ap proach the shore in places. Great springs gush forth making rivers, like that menti med at Bayport. llomasassa, one of them, has a new hotel for winter visitors. Ocala is push ing a railroad to Crystal river, when it will become a popular resort. Mr. Dis8ton, the capitalist who bought mill ions of acres o; the State lands, has formed a lovely resort up Anclote river two miles, Tar pon Springs. The late venerable Doctor Mays the owner of much land, built Sea Side for select winter and summer homes, and it has a healing fountain, Castalia. RaySt. Joseph is near by, and so also are old Tampa and Bay View. Thence down the coast are Yellow Bluff, Dunedin, Clear Wa ter, John's l'ass and Pinellas. South of the entrance to the Bay are Manatee, Palmetto and Palma Sola. The Manatee river flows into the Bay at the southeast, and the sparkling Alalia from the east. % This Bay and its shores and neighborhood are destined to be of very great importance to winter visiters in the fu ure; and hence 1 have been careful to mention the wide variety of re sorts. Respectfully, Lakeland Fla. G. C. Plates. , THE BIRD SHOW ASa^PET PARROT, By Jessie Benton Fremont. There is just cut a book written by the daughter of the famous Thomas II. Benton, and the wife of the no less famous John C. Fremont, entitled “Souvenirs of my Time.” A reviewer says of it: Mrs. Fremont’s book is written pr ncipally for girls, and she has filled it with the sort of light talk in which budding misses are suppos ed to feel a particular interest. Fashions, robes, bonnets, laces, dinners, weddings, re ceptions, the social and ceremonial aspects of public life, are described with a vivacity which o’erieaps the obstructions cf grammar. No matter; fair readers will find the pace exhilar ating, and wid understand their lhe’y friend even though a verb may now and then be for gotten. Mrs. Fremont begins with a minute and extremely entertainin' account of the famous wedding of the Russian Minister, old Mr. Bodisco, with beautiful young Miss Wil liams of Georgetown, an event which was one of the great stnsations of Mr. Van Buien’s reign. Our author was one of the bridesmaids, and she describes the elaborate ceremonies with no little force and humor; she gives the names of the bridemaids and groomsmen; she tells how they were placed and what the ladies wore; she mentions the distinguished people in attendance; but by an odd oversight she never names the bride, only describing.her as the daughter of a poor clerk, quite unknown in Washington socitty. She has many thiDgs to say of official etiqmtte and tbe mysteries of precedence and she tells how, when Ed ward LiviDgston was Attorney-General, his beautiful creole wife resented the regulation which placed her after all the other Cabinet ladies. She was willing to give the pas to Madame the Minister of State, to Madame of War, to Madame of the Navy; “but to walk in to dinner behind Madame Poze Offeese—jam ais!” There are interesting sketches of Mrs. Madison in her old age, and of Mrs. Alexan der Hamilton. There are pictures of sumptu ous plantation life in Virginia, and pleasant recollections of the Benton household in Wash- ton and St. Louis. Adventures in California and on the Isthmus are not lacking, and a large part of the volu He is devoted to Europe an rcmiuisences, in which royal and illustrous personages figure largely. Upon the whole the cheerful and desultory pages leave an agreea ble impression, as the records of an intelligent woman who has seen much of the world, looked at it with bright eyes, and made friends wherever she has travelled. Germany has prohibited; the exportation of horses across the frontier in any direction. Arbor Day in Montgomery, Ala. It is refreshing and nationally inspiriting, observe, now, while the Sou'ti is enjoying a material “boom” from the influx of Northern capital and skilled labor, and the planting ot great industrial establishments, the deep and patriotic national sentiment which inspires demonstrations like that described below. The occasion was “the fi st celebration of Arbor Day,” in Montgomery. A very interesting programme had been prepared by Superinten dent Bartlett of the Public Schools, which vas enthusiastically carried out. It will be ob served that the g >od and great of both sections were remembered in the tree planting. The exercises bevan at 0:30 o'clock on the 1st, at the Union School street Public School building, near tbe Capitol. After the exeicises there a procession was formed aud marched to the Sayre street high school building, where other interesting exercises were had. THE PROGRAMME. The thud year class, taught by Miss Bessie Waddell, planted a pine to the memory of Paul Hayne; dedicated by Amos Wollenhaupt; standard bearer, John Rosseau; recitation, by the class; orator, Freddie Schwed; motto, “The tender leaves of hope.” MUSIC. The fourth year class, taught by Miss Vir ginia Hereford, planted an oak to the memory of Dr. W. O. Baldwin, of Montgomery. Ded ication by Biuce Bates; standard bearer, John Tucker; recitation, by the class; motto, “Frees the pride of centuries.” MUSIC. The fifth year class, taught by Miss Susie Cook, planted an oak to the memory of Father Ryan. Dedication by I,eon Jackson; standard bearer, Gordon Chambers; recitation, by the class; motto, “0_e fond memory.” MUSIC. The sixth year class, taught by Mrs. M C Jones, planted an oak to the memory of Stone wall Jackson. Dedication, by James Nettles; standard bearer, Dalzel Peel; recitarion, by the class; orator, Walter Lovin; motto, “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.” The seventh year class, taught by Miss Alice Hereford, planted an oak to the memory of Robert li. Lee. Dedicali in, by Harry Kahn; standard-bearer, Morris Faunce; reci tation, “The Sword of Lee,” by the cla-s; motto, “Duty is the subiimest word in our language.” MUSIC. The eight year class, taught by the princi pal, Prof. J. M. Dewberry, planted an o k to the memory of Alexander H. Stephens. Dei- T Rare Romantic Reality. The following strange story, containing ail theesremial points for a first-lass romance, was Barr ited not long ago tort-reporter of the Cleveland (O.) Leader: After a separation of twenty-four years, both thinking lie other dead, a husband and wife are united in the home of their married daugh ter. The story, as near as can be ascertained, is as follows; John Taylor was born in this city about forty-five years ago. He was the son of a Presliyteri in minister. The family resided in Cleveland until a few years before the rebellion, when they rimoved to the South. Rev. Taylor secured a pastorate and his cliil- dr. n became imbued with the Southern spirit. Before leaving Cleveland John Taylor married a handsome young lady, but ihe alliance was made without the content of his family. His wife went South with him, however, and at the breaking out of the war Taylor enlisted in a Confederate regiment. His abilities were speedily recognized by his superior officers, and promotion was rapid. The time came when a trusted emissary HAI) TO BE SENT TO ENGLAND on an important mission. Taylor b’ing a quick, intelligent man with diplomatic quali ties. he was detailei to go. The trip occupied several months, and when Taylor returned he found that a daughter had been born to him during his absence. Tailor had been but a short time with his little family when tie Con federate Government again needed his ser vices, and he was dispatched to England for a second time. A great sorrow was in store for him, and when lie returned to his Southern home he inquired for his wife and child. He was told by his friends that both were d ad The war was soon ended, and a few months later Tayloi’s father died in Cincinnati. His estate was divided among seven children, and John received §3,000 as "his share. With his money he wentto England and studied medicine in London. Graduating, he settled fn a small city not far from London. Ilis practice was not very lucrative, ani, after returning to Lon don for a short time, he went to Australia. Here he followed his profession successfully. During all these years he searched for his daughter, not believing that she had died. In pursuit of her he twice came to this city, but could not fiud tbe slightest trace of her. Mrs. Taylor was told, so it has been ascertained lately, that her husband was dead, and soon after she came North, and has resided princi pally in Cleveland. THE DAUGHTER BECAME A YOUNG LADY, and about a year ago she married a michinist named Meyer. She told her husband that she belie red that her father was not dead, and her reasons lor holding that opinion. Meyer de lation, by Joseph King; standard-bearer, Sam : reason uom ng “ TT Meertief; orator, Albert Taylor; motto. “No ! termlned t0 find the father lftie was . ahve '. He freedom without education:” courier, Ollie Bartlett The school ihen formed lin s in front of the building, when the boys were addressed by Dr. Mayo, of Boston, and Hon. John Cald well. EXERCISES OK THE SAYRE ST. GR IMMER SCHOOL. First year class, taught by Miss Louise Weil, planted a tree to the memory of Sir Moses Montefiore. First year class, taught by Miss Claytonia Wilson, planted a tree in honor of Jefferson Davis. Second year class, taught by Miss Agnes Faherty, planted a tree to the memory of Henry Clay. Second year class, taught by Miss Virginia Crown, planted a tree to the memory of John C. Calhoun. Third year class, taught by Miss Alice Dun can, planted a tiee to the memory of Alice and Fhcebe Cary, Ohio’s daughters. Third year class, taught by Miss Annie Cun ningham, planted a tree to the memory of George Peabody. fourth year class, taught by Miss Sue Colby, planted a tree to the memory of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. Fourth year class, taught by Miss Ella Low ery, planted a tree to the memory of Wm Cullen Bryant. Fifth ye'ar class, taught by Mrs. Lucy Phil lips, planted a tree to the memory of Mrs. So phie B:bb. Sixth year class, taught by Miss Mary E. Boyle, planted a tree to the memory of Henry W. Longfellow. Cardinal Jacolini died in Rome, Feb. 26. Born Jan. 6, 1832. and elevated to the Cardi- nalate Sep. 19, 1879, he died as Sacretary of State for Pope Leo XHL wrote several letters to London and received an answer that Taylor hai studied melicine. Further investigation was made, and it was learned that Taylor had gone to Australia. Knowing that Dr. Taylor had always taken an interest in sporting matters, his daughter caused advertisements to be placed in the leading sporting journals of London and New York City. Nothing was heard in response to these notices, and letters were addressed to Dr. Taylor at Melbourne and Sydney, in Aus tralia. The letter addressed to him at the latter place fell into his hands about four months ago. He immediately answered it, and soon after received one from bis daughter, stating that she and her mother were still alive and living in Cleveland. Dr. Taylor did not wait to answer the last missive, but, packing np, he took the first steamer for San Francisco, and arrived in Cleveland two weeks ago to day. He met his wife and daughter after a separation of twenty-four years. The Leader follows this recital by the sug gestion that Dr. Taylor will remain in Cleve land for some t me. The Hermitage Property. The motion to pr sent the Hermitage farm to the National Government for a home for the disabled soldiers of the war of 1812, the Mex- can war and the soldiers of the late civil war, who fought on both sides, which the Tennes see Leg's a': r 's now discussing is a most f.-asible one in every respect. The mild cli mate, the beautiful scenery and its accessibil ity render it a most appropriate place for such an iustiti.t'on, and the building of a great na tional charity at the home of Andrew Jackson would make a most fitting and enduring mon ument for him who was not the hero of the North or South, but of the whole people. The Hermitage is situated twelve miles from Nashville, on a beautiful pike, and is one of the most beautiful and fertile farms in that softly undulating country. Much of the land has been sold of the original tract, but the old- fashioned mansion still stands under its old trees in the midst of goodly acres. The house is full of relics of Gen. Jackson, and his body servant shows them to visitors, and recills many reminiscences of the dead hero. The garden is full of old-fashioned flowers; lilies and poppies and larkspur run riot over everything except the quiet corner where, un der a portico supported by marble pillars, s'eeps all that is mortal of Andrew Jackson and the wife to whom, in spite of calumny, he was faithful to the las,. A little yellower with age than his, a little more moss-grown and with dimmer lettering, we stoop to read the inscription on her tomb, written by Jackson hansel*, in which, after paying just tribute to her worth, it ends in a sentence like a sob, where all the bitterness of years called for ex pression: “A being so pure and so forgiving, slander might wound but could not hurt." Texas Garlands. The New Orleans Times-Democrat pays the following timely and and kindly compliment to a volume of poems recently published. A collection of 160 poems by Mrs. Martha E. Whitten, of Austin, Tex., is published by Triplett & Hutchings, of that city. The writer, a Texan bom and bred, has composed them in the interals of a busy life, that has had its full complement of cares and sorrows, and having teen from childhood devoted to express ing her thoughts and musings in ver le, she has gathered these productions of a life-time into a volume which thus represents the whole range of sentiment of a loving chiid and thought’ul, sympathetic woman. The “Gar lands.” presenting specimens of many meas ures and metres, are largely commemorative of special occasions, anniversaries, festive aud sorrowful, in which individuals among a large circle of fondly esteemed friends or relatives have been speciclly interested. They are all animated by a highly devorional spirit, and breathe a tender, gentle feeling of affectionate comprehension and appreciation of the mani fold bereavements that afflict, or the simple pleasures that divert, humanity. A number of them are patriotic and celebrate achieve ments of daring and gallantry on the part of Texas pioneers, of of later heroes of local and national fame. WASHINGTON CITY. Reminiscences of Distin guished Public Men. Incidents Which Have Transpired at the national Capitol. BV BEN. PERLY POORE. No. 175. It is curiors that the two potentates who represent the opposite extremes in the game of empire in Europe are both alike in this, that they are in constant dread of assassination. The anxiety of the Emperor of Russia on this subject fs well known, and a correspondent writes of Turkey’s Sultan that he is *a man who sits quaking in his kiosk at Yildiz with his nerves all unstrung from feai of plots, and his ears wide open to every suggestion for se curing, not the safety of his domain, but bi i own persona] safety. To see him go to the mosque on a Friday in a closed carriage is a humiliating spectacle to old Turkish officers, who remember how proudly his predecessors, Abdul Medjid and Abdul Aziz, used to ride on horseback through Const*ntlnople’s crowded streets to St. Sophia. Area of the United States. The following figures supply some interest ing and valuable information, not generally known, in relation to the area of the original thirteen States; and the dates of subsequent purchases and annexations, and the area com prised in them, with the grand total of the ex tent of United States territory at this time. It cannot be many year i before the following (almost prophetic) couplet will become histo ry, and the grand total largely increased: ‘ No pent np Utica contracts our powers. The whole, the boundless continent is ours.” Square miles. Original area of the 13 States - • - 820,680 Louisiana purchase of 1803 - - - 899,*>79 Florida purchase, 1819 ----- 66,900 Territory by Oregjn treaty, ’42 and ’46 308,052 Texas annexed in 1846 ----- 318,000 New Mexico and California, 1847 - 522,055 Gadsden purchase, 1853 - - - - 45,535 Alaska purchase, 1867 ----- 577,390 To -*1 area in square miles - - - 3,559,091 — •— It is stated that French military officers i making extensive purchases of hotses c mules in the Spanish provinces. Avoiding the Gensors. The Washington correspondents were greatly troubled, during the war, by the censorship, and they studied diligently how to circumvent it. Just before the capture of Fort Fisher, and when the news of its fall would naturally haze had an effect upon the stock market, one of the correspondents vent to New Xork in order to be on hand when ths opportunity came to buy or sell. A friend at Washington was to tele graph him when Fort Fisher fell that” The child is very sick,’’and, to make doubly sure, the despatch was to be signed “Mary.” This neat little arrangement completely deceived the censor when Fort Fisher was captured, and the despatch was promptly sent. The censor boarded at Willard’s Hotel, there also, boarded the wife and three children of the enterprising journalist. The censor was personally acquainted with the journalist and hisfamily, and on the day that he had passed the despatch, he ap proashed the lady and asked, “How is the child?” “ What child; all my children are well,” replied she. “All welt?” said the censor. “ Perfectly well.” “Excuse me, madame,” asked the censor, “but is your first name Mary?” “No, sir, it is not, and why do you ask?” The censor gave a low whistle, andreplied: “Oh, for no reason in particular.” “But you must have a reason for such a ques tion.” Driven to the wall, and suspecting all sorts of naughty things, with the deceived woman be fore him, what could he do l He had to do some thing, and he made a clean breast of it. He told the lady that somebody, named* 1 Mary” had that day telegraphed to her husband in New York that the child was very sick, and supposing, of course, the telegram could only have been sent by her, he ventured to ask as to the condition of the young invalid. Here was ajpretty kettle of fish. Who was “Mary,” and where was she? Had the wicked journalist another wife and some more children hidden away? Evidently so, The wicked jour nalist, meanwhile, head and ears instock oper ations^ New Y ork, received another despatch. It this Ume a cipher,' 5/at, on the con- trary, exceedingly plain, and from his batter half. He returned to Washington by the next train, a’d by the help of the genuine “Mary succeeded, after some difficulty, in convincing the partner of all his w oes and joys that he had not been faithful to his marriage vows. Randolph the Lion. John Randolph was, in his day, the lion of the ( apital, and the following story is told of a new member from Kentucky who wish to be presented to him. A friend, Gen. Raymond promised to present him, sayingthe “you must be prepared for an odd reception, for if Ran dolph is in a bad humor, he will do anything, say anytning; if he is in a good humor, you will see a most finished gentleman/’ They ca i ed L,. Mr ' KandoI P' 1 w »s stretched out on a sofa. “He seemed,” sail the member “ a skel eton, endowed with those flashing eyes which ghost stories gives to the reanimated body when sent upon some earthly mission.” The congressman was presented ’ by his fnend, the general, as a member Congress from Kentucky. “Ah, from Kentucky, sir.” ex- claimed Randolph, in his shrill voice, as he rose to receive him;*' from Kentucky sir- well sir, I consider your State the Botany Bay of Virginia.” The Kentuckian thought that the next remark would be a quotatation from Bar- rington’s Botany Bay epilogue, applied by Ran dolph to the Virginia settlers of Kentucky: True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country’s good But Randolph, after a pause, continued: “I do not make this remark, sir, in application to the morals or mode of settlement of Kentucky. Bir » I mean to say that it is my opinion, sir, that the time approaches when Botany Bay will in all respects surpass England, and I fear it will soon be so with regard to your State and mine. Butler and Carfield. Gen. Butler, when he represented the Essex district in Congress, used to make terrible re torts, and the w ser members never intention ally gave him any provocation. One day, soon after the Credit Mobiler exposure, in a debate on the postoffice appropriation bill, after some preliminary nagging, Garfield, turning to But ler, said, in his usual lofty way, that the abo lition of the franking privile ;e was not a per sonal matter, and asked. “Why do you want to quarrel with me?” Old Ben rose up with a wicked leer lurking about his eye, and said, in a full, sonorous tone of voice, “I want no quarrel with ihe gentleman from Ohio. De mortuis nil nisi bonum.” If a thunder bolt had come crashing through the roof of the House and struck poor Garfield he could not have dropped more dead like into his seat. He sat there as pale and death, fairly gasping for breath. Although he made a desperate effort aft irwards to recover his composure and take part in the debate, it was pi i nly apparent to everybody that the savage irony of Butler had gone to his heart. Yet in about ten years thereafter Garfield had been elected President of the United States, and Butler signallv de feated. PERSONAL MENTION. Men Who Were Laughed At. Galileo, Columbus, Jenner, and the men au thors who had their first manuscripts returned, are among those of the world’s benefactors whose early dreams met with ridicule. When the first train made its first trip over George Stephenson’s railroad, between Liver pool and Manchester, and the stage companies held indignation meeting, it was certain, to many people, that teamsters would starve, and the market for horses be ruinds. , When tie Central Railroad got to Rochester, N. Y-, the farmers mobbed the new-fangled contrivance, driving off the workmen because horses wouldn’t be worth ten dol'ars apiece. When the first reaper was put to work in an English wheat field, the excited s ckle reapers captured and burnt it. When the self-binders were first introduced in Western Illinois, the harvest hands burnt many, and they were compelled to guard the machines with shot-guns. Yet we know that all things are for the good of all, laboring people not excepted. Every labor-saving machine is also a laborer-saving machine. The workingman i3 the chief con sumer of the products of work; this is a faerefore should never forget, and because, of ' ,., much better than his * - for awhile ••near from the people. Write us and express yourselves fully and plainly. What the People Are Doing and Saying. Napolean Bonaparte was made a Mason at Malta in 1798. Marshall Field’s pri rate sitting-room in his Chicago residence cost §7,000. Dr. Mary Walker has one great sorrow. She has no little boy for whom she can make over her old pantaloons. Miss Maud Banks, daugtther of Gen. N. P., is now regularly on the stage. She is playing Parthenia in “Ingomar.” Mr. and Mrs. William Astor are at Monte Carlo, which resort is ’said to be crowded as it has not been in several years. The Marquis of Almanzova, whose income is §2,000,000 a year, was a Spanish miner thir ty years ago working for 30-. a day. Hon. Henry R. Harris, ex-Representative Fourth Georgia District, has been appointed Third Assistant Postmaster-General. Colonel J. S. Mosby, of guerrilla warfare fame, will shortly publish his personal remin iscences of the late unpleasantness. The oldest ex-Cabinet officer now living is Historian Bancroft, who was President Polk’s Secretary of the Navy forty two years ago. Professor Anderson, United States minister to Denmark, is reported to have made many friends in Copenhagen in social, scientific and literary circles. A dispatch from Norwalk, O., chronicles the death of Myron Breckenridge at the age of 91. He was once well known as a Metho dist exhorter. Treasurer Jordan immediately on being re lieved from official duties, will sail for Europe on business for a new bank with which he is to be connected. The original copy of Shelley’s “Mask of Anarchy” has been found in England. It con tains two more stanzas than those in the copy published in 1832. John Ericsson, the great inventor, is said to be in better health at 91 than he has been for ten years past. He averages ten or twelve hours of work a day. Senator Voorhees, from the Library Com mittee, reported favorably the bill to appropri ate §30,000 for a monument to mark the birth place of Washington. An earnest effort is being made in Philadel phia for the erection of a monumental statue of General MiClellau at the east front of the Municipal Building. Ex-President Jefferson Davis and his charm ing daughter, Miss Winnie, will accompany the Volunteer Southrons to the Washington drill in Mly, so we learn. Prof. Barnard, of the Nashville observatory, bus within a year captured thirteen §100 prizes JhrtLe discovery of conets. He finds profit in reading t'.e ans wer in the stars. Miss Edith Elworth Talmage, a daughter of the Rev. T. DeWitt, was married last week to Mr. Allan Edloe Dorn an, of Richm ind, Va. Her father and uncle officiated. Col. John Rutherford, a distinguished mem her of the Macon (Ga.,) bar, died week before last, in the prime of life, and while oa the tidal wave to wealth and distinction. Dr. Wm. C. Gray, a close friend of the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, says that the preacher will soon have to leave the Brooklyn Taber nacle or die, as the work there is too hard for him. Mrs. Margaret I. Preston, the Southern au thor and poetess, now residing at Winchester, has a serious affection of the eyes, which com pels her to use an amanuensis in her literary work. R. C. J. Pendlet n of Indianapolis, is in Washington City soliciting subscriptions for the lund to aid in erecting a monument in that city to the memory of the late Vice-President Hendricks. Prince Bismarck is 6 feet 4 inches tall and very powerful. In the great trinity of famous Germans he is called “the baby,” as he is but 72 years old, while the Emperior is 90, and Von Moltke is 87. Another effort is to be made by Bostonians to get through Congress a bill appropriating §15,000 for the monument to Joseph Warren, which was ordered to be erected bj Congress many years ago. Sir Michael Morris is the first Roma a Cath olic appointed to be Lord Chief-Justice of Ire • land since the Reformation. It is a notable incident that the appointment should be made by a Conservative Government. Tony Barrios, son of the late President of Guatemala, is a student at West Point, and young arala, son ef the man who overthrew and cat.sed the -“death of President Barrios, is also at West Point and his classmate. Miss Edith Andrews, who is going to marry young John A. Logan, is the daughter of wealthy pa ’ents, but wholly unspoiled. She is blonde, small, graceful aud attractive, and possesses great dignity and a sweet disposition withal. The adopted daughter of the late William II. Seward, has promised to give to the Art Gallery of the University of California the orig inal painting by Leutze of his well-known pict ure, “Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way.” Sergeant S. Prentiss was the ideal orator of the South. A large and excellent oil portrait, presented by Judge Morris, of Natihez, has been hung in the room of the supreme court of Louisiana, the field of most of Mr. Prentiss’ oratorical triumphs. Dr. Cornelius A. Logan, the legal represen tative of Mrs. John A. Logan, has closed a contract with R. S. Peele & Co., ci Chicago, for the publication of the book entitled “The Volunteer Soldier of America,” written by the late General Logan. It is said, in Paris that Mrs. John Mackay owns the finest jewels in the world. One is a sapphire, b mght of a Russian Prince for §150,000. Notwithstanding this, she is ex pected to be a large purchaser at the c rating sale of ciown jewels in Paris. Lord Randolph Churchill is an abler man than he gets credit for. He believes that the power of England would be dissipated if it lost its ancient monarchical quality; but he is desiroas to pick up alliances out of the new Democracy, and he has quarreled with the Tory party because they would not follow his policy. A little old woman in tattered attire sells matehes on the streets of Philadelphia She is named Maria Louisa Hancock and claims relationship to the dead general. Although apparently very poor, she is said to be woi th §30,000. She secures her entire sustenance from ire e-lunch counters in saloons where she sells matches. Charles A. Pilsbury, the great Minneapolis miller, was poor when, in 1863, he was gradu ated from Dartmouth. Four years later, still poor, he went to Minneapolis and established a business which to-day is the largest of A' i_His mills turn <md he pays ' ”00 y“ exchanged. AM. 590-13t I Sample Book of bearni; |hWl2 tricks * n magic. 436 Mb W & 2c. stamp 8TA1H ■ a 2c. stamp. (575 Mt)
